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This episode is brought to you by Melatonin

tonight for our 100th episode.

We'll be reading Rip Van Winkle,

a story found in Mrs. Lange's 1913, The Strange Story Book.

Rip Van Winkle was originally a short story

by the American author Washington Irving, published in 1819.

It follows a Dutch American Villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle, who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains

and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution, Irving wrote it while living in England, and later

admitted he had never been to the Catskill Mountains when he wrote the story.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Riff Van Winkle, west of the river Hudson, and at the foot of the river Hudson.

And at the foot of the Catskill Mountains

lies one of the oldest European villages in the United States of America.

It was built by some of the earliest Dutch settlers,

who were so anxious to have everything nice and tidy

as it would have been at home, that they brought a large

supply of bricks and weathercocks from Holland to make it. And you would never have guessed from the look of the houses that

you were in the new world. In course of time the snows of winter, and the heats of summer began to leave their mark on the surface

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